1 Corinthians 3:6
Good News Translation
I planted the seed, Apollos watered the plant, but it was God who made the plant grow.

New Revised Standard Version
I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.

Contemporary English Version
I planted the seeds, Apollos watered them, but God made them sprout and grow.

New American Bible
I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused the growth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I have planted, Apollo watered: but God gave the increase.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I have planted, Apollo watered: but God gave the increase.

I.

1 Corinthians 3:9,10 For we are God's coadjutors. You are God's husbandry: you are God's building. . . .

1 Corinthians 4:14,15 I write not these things to confound you: but I admonish you as my dearest children. . . .

1 Corinthians 9:1,7-11 Am I not I free? Am not I an apostle? Have not I seen Christ Jesus our Lord? Are not you my work in the Lord? . . .

1 Corinthians 15:1-11 Now I make known unto you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you have received and wherein you stand. . . .

Acts 18:4-11 And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, bringing in the name of the Lord Jesus. And he persuaded the Jews and the Greeks. . . .

2 Corinthians 10:14,15 For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as if we reached not unto you. For we are come as far as to you in the Gospel of Christ. . . .

Apollos.

Proverbs 11:25 He that hideth up corn, shall be cursed among the people: but a blessing upon the head of them that sell.

Acts 18:24,26,27 Now a certain Jew, named Apollo, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus, one mighty in the scriptures. . . .

Acts 19:1 And it came to pass, while Apollo was at Corinth, that Paul, having passed through the upper coasts, came to Ephesus and found certain disciples.

God.

1 Corinthians 1:30 But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom and justice and sanctification and redemption:

1 Corinthians 15:10 But by the grace of God, I am what I am. And his grace in me hath not been void: but I have laboured more abundantly than all they. Yet not I, but the grace of God with me:

Psalm 62:9,11 But vain are the sons of men, the sons of men are liars in the balances: that by vanity they may together deceive. . . .

Psalm 92:13-15 They that are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of the house of our God. . . .

Psalm 127:1 A gradual canticle of Solomon. Unless the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it. Unless the Lord keep the city, he watcheth in vain that keepeth it.

Isaiah 55:10,11 And as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and return no more thither, but soak the earth, and water it, and make it to spring, and give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: . . .

Isaiah 61:11 For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the garden causeth her seed to shoot forth: so shall the Lord God make justice to spring forth, and praise before all the nations.

Acts 11:18 Having heard these things, they held their peace and glorified God, saying: God then hath also to the Gentiles given repentance, unto life.

Acts 14:27 And when they were come and had assembled the church, they related what great things God had done with them and how he had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.

Acts 16:14 And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, one that worshipped God, did hear: whose heart the Lord opened to attend to those things which were said by Paul.

Acts 21:19 Whom when he had saluted, he related particularly what things God had wrought among the Gentiles by his ministry.

Romans 15:18 For I dare not to speak of any of those things which Christ worketh not by me, for the obedience of the Gentiles, by word and deed,

2 Corinthians 3:2-5 You are our epistle, written in our hearts, which is known and read by all men: . . .

1 Thessalonians 1:5 For our gospel hath not been unto you in word only, but in power also: and in the Holy Ghost and in much fulness, as you know what manner of men we have been among you for your sakes.

Context
God's Fellow Workers
5The ministers of him whom you have believed: and to every one as the Lord hath given. 6I have planted, Apollo watered: but God gave the increase. 7Therefore, neither he that planteth is any thing, nor he that watereth: but God that giveth the increase.…
Cross References
Acts 18:24
Now a certain Jew, named Apollo, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus, one mighty in the scriptures.

Acts 19:1
And it came to pass, while Apollo was at Corinth, that Paul, having passed through the upper coasts, came to Ephesus and found certain disciples.

1 Corinthians 1:12
Now this I say, that every one of you saith: I indeed am of Paul; and I am of Apollo; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.

1 Corinthians 3:7
Therefore, neither he that planteth is any thing, nor he that watereth: but God that giveth the increase.

1 Corinthians 3:22
For all things are yours, whether it be Paul or Apollo or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come. For all are yours.

1 Corinthians 4:15
For if you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, by the gospel, I have begotten you.

1 Corinthians 9:1
Am I not I free? Am not I an apostle? Have not I seen Christ Jesus our Lord? Are not you my work in the Lord?

1 Corinthians 9:7
Who serveth as a soldier, at any time, at his own charges? Who planteth a vineyard and eateth not of the fruit thereof? Who feedeth the flock and eateth not of the milk of the flock?

1 Corinthians 15:1
Now I make known unto you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you have received and wherein you stand.

1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God, I am what I am. And his grace in me hath not been void: but I have laboured more abundantly than all they. Yet not I, but the grace of God with me:

2 Corinthians 10:14
For we stretch not ourselves beyond our measure, as if we reached not unto you. For we are come as far as to you in the Gospel of Christ.

Ephesians 3:17
That Christ may dwell by faith in your hearts: that, being rooted and founded in charity,

1 Corinthians 3:5
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